Columns

Complementarity must begin with an understanding of the radical equality of men and women.

Three spiritual books on aging are less about growing old than growing up.

How much does the average church help the person in the pew facing life’s big questions?

Do Catholics recognize the moral imperative to build the economy cooperatively?

No longer are synods stage-managed pageants that simply ratify the pope’s decisions.

The pope reminds me that I have to query my choices about time and money and the stuff I buy.

Commoning was an economic system built around meeting the needs of the poor.

The United States has to go beyond blunt militarism in the fight against ISIS.

Seeing Rome, our faith and a disembodied arm through eyes of two young nephews.

‘The faith is Europe,” Hilaire Belloc claimed a century ago, “and Europe is the faith.” To say the same today might provoke laughter or confusion. When we think of Europe, is the first thing that comes to mind Christianity?Now, quick—say the first word that pops into yo